Authoring DVD

chrisrobbins · Post by **chrisrobbins** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:15 pm

Can I make a dvd with seprate menus in VideoStudio?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:30 pm

Maybe -- but can you explain exactly what you mean...

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:33 am

Tutorial Here

chrisrobbins · Post by **chrisrobbins** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:17 pm

i have a tv series that I want to put on DVD..I want to ::

1). when dvd is put in the title track
2) then be able to select the episode I want to watch

OR

title track then have a sub menu for chapters

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:41 pm

I would make each episode its own video file (Share>Create Video File). At the menu stage, import each of those video files (episodes). Each one will then have its own thumbnail on your menu page, and each episode can have chapter points if you so wish.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:43 pm

That is all explained in Steve's tutorial. But yes -- that is easy!

If you have each episode of the series as a separate video, you insert each in the burning timeline up to the limit that the size of your DVD will accept. Say each episode is an hour and you are using single layer DVD blanks. Then you want to burn two episodes per DVD. (You would need to use a bitrate of 4000 kbps to fit it all on but that is irrelevant to your question.)

So you have two clips in the burning timeline. Each, in video editing parlance, is a 'title'. So you want a title (or main) menu showing both of those clips that you can choose between. But you also want chapter menus for each. They would be sub-menus. Click on the Add/Edit Chapters button. A new window appears with a preview screen showing the first frame of that 'title'.

Auto Add Chapters will be the only active option at that stage, and you can choose that if you want, say, each Chapter to be, say, every two or 3 or more minutes... But if you want to choose where each chapter starts yourself, then drag the jog slider under the preview screen to where you want to insert the first chapter. Then you will see that the Add Chapter button has become active. You click that and a red chapter mark is inserted below the preview screen. Continue that to insert as many chapters as you want.

Then you OK out of that and are taken back to the main burning window. You click Next to choose the template etc. And proceed as per Steve's tutorial. But you will now have a main menu with your two episides showing. And when you select one, that will then have a sub-menu showing your chapter points.

chrisrobbins · Post by **chrisrobbins** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:44 pm

THATS IT !!! .. Thank you.. Installed Windows 7 this weekend and was using TMPEG DVD Author Works 4 but it does NOT work in Windows7..Been using VideoStudio 11 for year now for editing..

Thank you

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:41 pm

If you are using Win 7, you might want to keep in touch with a sticky post on the subject which we have set up here: http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?p=181998#181998 It is mainly to do with VS X2's inter-action with it, and you will see that the burning module in X2 does not show up properly in it. So I am intrigued by your suggestion that authoring a menu etc as I suggested worked with VS11 and Win 7... Can you please confirm?